AGSL GeoDiscovery

Wards and Electoral Divisions: Great Britain, 2005

Description:

This polygon shapefile depicts electoral wards and divisions for England and Wales as of 2005. The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors. The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils, electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils, while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and unitary authorities. Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 but ward-population counts can vary substantially. This layer is part of the Office of National Statistics (ONS) Boundary Dataset supply, 2001-2011.

This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.

This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/xm090kz6588

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/xm090kz6588

Language:

eng

Creator:

Great Britain. Office for National Statistics

Publisher:

Great Britain. Ordnance Survey

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon data

Subject:

Administrative and political divisions, Election districts, and Boundaries

Theme:

Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

2005

Date Issued:

2011

Spatial Coverage:

Great Britain

Rights:

These data are licensed by Stanford Libraries and are available to Stanford University affiliates only. Affiliates are limited to current faculty, staff and students. Non affiliates seeking access should contact the publisher directly. These data may not be reproduced or used for any purpose without permission.

Rights Holder:

Copyright ownership resides with the originator.

Access Rights:

Restricted

Format:

Shapefile

Georeferenced:

false